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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on Tuesday proposed a new multibillion-dollar retirement plan -- billed as a universal 401(k) plan with federal matching funds -- to supplement Social Security for middle-class workers.
The accounts would cost the Treasury $20 billion to $25 billion a year, the second-most-expensive initiative Clinton has rolled out in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Her plan for universal health care would cost more than $100 billion a year.
''I am not proposing anything I don't have a way to pay for,'' she said.

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With full-page ads in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times trumpeting its slide down the spillways, The Committee on the Present Danger has been relaunched.
The 1970s committee of Republican hawks and neoconservatives denounced detente and called for clarity, courage and perseverance in the Cold War against a Soviet empire that had overrun Southeast Asia and was on the march in Africa and close to strategic superiority.

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MADISON, Wis. - The League of Conservation Voters kicked off its effort Tuesday to recruit 3,000 volunteers in Madison and Milwaukee as it works for President Bush's defeat this November.
The league is the latest interest group to set up shop in Wisconsin ahead of the election. Joining it are anti-Bush groups such as America Coming Together and those that support the president's policies such as Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Mar. 31 - High taxes are keeping the North Carolina economy stagnant and preventing new businesses from locating here, according to a John Locke Foundation study presented Tuesday in Burlington.
The report, "Climate Change 2004," surveyed North Carolina business leaders who said corporate and income taxes are hurting the economy and quoted statistics that show North Carolina lagging behind other Southern states on key economic statistics.

The Florida House of Representatives approved a proposal by two Miami lawmakers Thursday that would offer $3,000 vouchers for private school tuition to students attending overcrowded public schools.
But two days of sound and fury about whether Republicans or Democrats care more for "the children" leading up to the 63-54 vote, mostly along party lines, signified next to nothing: Its companion bill is already all but dead in the Senate Education Committee at the hands of chairman Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie.